As far as what you do on the entrainment table, there is almost no wrong. This is true as long as you are listening to your body. Movements, stretching and/or repositioning your body are an important part of Network. Let’s look at moving your legs as an example. Your nervous system might have you move your legs for many different reasons. You might need to move the muscles, pump the lymph, stimulate nerves, move energy or even use your legs as a lever to adjust your pelvis. Sometimes you might just find yourself bending your knees or ankles automatically, and sometimes you might get an urge to do so consciously. The body can use muscles anywhere in your body for the above reasons including using your arms to affect your neck. 

The only time we will ask you to stop a movement, or positional change is when it is driving defense or reenforcing old habits instead of growth. Not stopping these movements or positional changes could have you energetically spinning your wheels or even draining energy.

Network helps us breath better on and off the table. It stimulates and activates dormant and often unused parts of of respiratory systems as well as resetting our natural pattern of slow deep breathing. All of this happens automatically. An important caveat is that during entrainments, you do not need to try to breather deeper or control your breath.

Here are some simple guidelines for conscious healthy breathing:

Its almost always best to breath in and out your nose. This warms and cleans the air, and it helps absorb oxygen better. You can also breath out your mouth with pursed lips if you are not able to exhale through your nose. Either way, it is helpful to place the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth behind your front teeth. Side note: You will feel like you are suffocating the first few days of practicing exclusive nose nose breathing. This is a short adaption period and it can be helpful to use a pulse ox to monitor your oxygen levels. Humans today are chronic over breathers and your oxygen levels will likely be fine even though you feel like you don’t have enough air.

Now lets take Network principles into account.

Breathing in your mouth and out your nose is appropriate and natural in moments of Awaken, awe or ecstasy. Essentially, when something is so great that it takes your breath away, you might find yourself mouth breathing for a small while.

Breathing in and out your mouth is also associated with merging an old way of doing things with a new way.

You might also need to breath in your mouth during entrainments in order to get enough air in or to activate the season of transform and/or awaken.

Take deep slow breaths into into your stomach to activate your diaphragm.

Exception: Focused Heart breathing uses more of the secondary respiratory muscles. The benefit of this type of breathing comes from the focus on your heart.

The ideal breath is roughly 5.5 seconds in the nose and 5.5 seconds out the nose. Practicing this even for a few minutes a day can have huge benefits and help you re learn to breathe through your nose. Come see us when you are in Dalas!